I needed a good accompaniment to the turkey pita I was eating, so I decided to make a crisp, verdant salad out of the things that I had sitting in my fridge (that’s how most of my recipes start out, I guess…college life…). I ended up with a seasonally appropriate pasta salad full of green [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘College’
April 20, 2008
Springtime Means Pasta Salad Time: Cold Penne Salad with Celery, Scallions and Broccoli
April 6, 2008
Adobong Baka in a Slow Cooker
My mom laughed at me when I told her I wanted to attempt cooking adobo, a Filipino meat dish (usually fatty cuts of pork or chicken, but in this case, beef) marinated in garlic, soy sauce and vinegar, in my roommate’s Crock Pot. “Adobo is supposed to be a little crispy, not like stew,” she [...]
April 4, 2008
Real Quick Mussels Spaghetti in a White Wine and Basil Oil Broth: Steve Cooked it Two Nights Ago and It Was Awesome
If there’s anyone I love to talk about food with, it’s my roommate Steve, who actually cooks the things that he wants to cook instead of just sitting around, dreaming, talking and blogging about it, like me. The mussels with pasta is the first recipe Steve attempted from his new Jamie Oliver cookbook, Cook with [...]
March 24, 2008
New Salad Option at the Schine Salad Bar
If you eat at the Schine salad bar often, you know that your options are limited. Every salad topper is disgusting (corn, chopped eggs, broccoli, drained tuna, banana peppers), the dressings have flakes of tuna and olives floating in them and the only good thing about it is the potato salad and croutons.
But they’ve [...]
March 7, 2008
Julianne’s Quesadilla Party
I saw this idea on The Pioneer Woman Cook’s Blog. She just sauteed a bunch of veggies up (zucchini, eggplant, red and green peppers, onions, spinach, etc.) and had a make-it-yourself quesadilla bar, and then baked them until the cheese was melted. A few guests were commissioned to bring wine, Mexican rice and homemade guacamole [...]
February 8, 2008
My Favorite Bagel Fillings
Growing up in a Southern California suburb, we didn’t eat a lot of bagels, and we certainly didn’t have many delis. So when I moved to the East Coast for college, I made a promise to myself to eat at least three bagels a week (I pretty much do…Dunkin’ Donuts bagels are very good, and [...]
January 25, 2008
Battle: Cornish Game Hen
My roommate Steve and I cooked our hens last night, side by side in the oven. Jordan, my other roommate and resident chicken expert, judged the plates. Steve won — Jordan said that his had a certain kick that mine didn’t have. I suspect it was because he used freshly cracked black pepper, tons of [...]
